Application operation simulation device

An application operation simulation device for performing a simulation of an application operation that uses a robot equipped with a spray device provided with at least one nozzle to move said spray device based on a working program and apply an injected material from said nozzle to an applied member while indicating a three-dimensional model of said robot and a three-dimensional model of said applied member at a same time on screen, the application operation simulation device comprising:

• a specification section that specifies positions of said nozzle with respect to said spray device and injection shapes of the injected materials injected from said nozzle;
• an interference point calculation section that performs the working program of said robot including instructions for outputting and stopping said injected material to operate the three-dimensional model of said robot by simulation and to calculate interference points between the three-dimensional model of said injection shapes and the three-dimensional model of said applied member every predetermined time period;
• an interference number calculation section that calculates a number of interference every said predetermined time period at each of said interference points calculated by said interference point calculation section on a surface of the three-dimensional model of said applied member;
• an application time calculation section that calculates an application time of the injected material at each of the interference points by multiplying said predetermined time period with the number of interference calculated by said interference number calculation section;
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• a display section that displays a color-coded surface of the three-dimensional model of said applied member according to the application time calculated by said application time calculation section, so that application operation simulation device is capable of improving a teaching of the robot and shortening a teaching time of the robot.